Sleep my little loved one sleep tears of rain are teeming Mother will your treasures keep precious toys from bones of sheep till daylight puts an end to dreaming All the woes which darkness knows make my spirit languish Pitch-black sands I’ve often seen burn away the fields of green the glacier’s lifeless depths cry out in anguish Sleep my baby sleep content you must learn tomorrow Nature never can relent fleeting daylight soon is spent and life’s a tale of love and loss and sorrow

I like to listen to her recording of this lullaby whenever we get close to Midsummer’s Eve, St. John’s Eve for Christians. This year the June Solstice is on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, as Google helpfully tells us.